mossback

• Call me a mossback, but I believe even the highest earners, even overpaid CEOs, ought to be able to keep most of what they make. —  Blog updates
• "Old mossback, he get in hole, an' hide a week. —  Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
• I've worked hired man to a French Canuk mossback which don't leave a feller the playtime of a nigger slave, but that hell-hired Scotch machine boss sets me yearnin' for that mossback's wage like a bull-pup chasin' offal. —  The Man in the Twilight
• Somehow the irritation and exasperation had gone from the episode I know that sort of crazy old mossback," muttered Welton as he turned down the mountain. —  The Rules of the Game
• The mossback is a mediaeval survival. —  Chapters in Rural Progress

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